Improving Jmeter - User Agent Switching for HTTP

[re...@post.cz]

Hello Jmeter developers

Many currnet dynamic WEB systems with XML/XSLT can customize page
output by detecting what type of user is accessing page. It can be
recognition of IE and FIREFOX, plain text page for PDA or no
javascript menu for search engine. Because this different
templates have different resource needs for correct testing is
neccesery to implement EASY WAY to change/define  User Agent
Switching in Jmeter.  

---------- Implementation Notes ------------------------
1. Allow Custom User Agent
Be shure then we can change user agent strings in both HTTP
probes by adding User aggent header in current custom hedaer
module.  
2. Impelemnt changing by GUI
Chris Pederik author of "User Agent switcher" for Firefox and
Mozilla agreed to share with us logic for generating various user
agent headres emulating different Web browsers and utilites.

Code is in Javascript and XML under   at 
http://www.chrispederick.com/

There is also contact infos for Chris.
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The best actual source of warious user agent strings is:

User agent Strings
http://www.pgts.com.au/pgtsj/pgtsj0208c.html

List of Robot Agent Strings:
http://www.pgts.com.au/pgtsj/pgtsj0208d.html


Ing Rudolf Kutina
Practical tester
Prague


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